I know! I can barely wait through a Slackware install, and a Windows install drives me nuts since they don't always work and always need you to hold its hand. Imagine what the install will be like - probably a month or two.
I dropped my IMP-450 on the ground and got a scratch or two but it still works fine and is in one piece. I'm just pissed that the 450's (much delayed) firmware upgrade doesn't support ogg. Buyers remorse, right?
My school, NJIT has a similar report and definately has lots of projectors, a comprehensive wireless network, and has Unix and VAX accounts. So yes, Forbes sucks.
Actually, the people saying that there are too many standards often have a new one in mind that encompasses or does the same thing as a few others so that he can say "if you just use my standard, you only have to use one and not three!" So yes, it can and will get worse.
Yeah, the X-15. IIRC, one of the highest and fastest flights it took started to melt the plane and as a result, the fuel release valves didn't open, forcing the pilot to land on the metal skids with lots of rocket fuel.
Sort of like Charles Schulz dying on the publication of his last Charlie Brown strip. It is fitting but a strange coincidice. My grandfather died not long after they restored the mill pond in Imlaystown, NJ, which he fought to get. I suppose things happen for a reason; my belief is that it is subconcious. A certain drive causes people to want to live, and when it is completed, they die. Or as George Sanders wrote, "Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool -- good luck."
On the subject of pot, I read (on Wikipedia I believe) that marijuana halves the half-life of caffeine in your body to 3 hours instead of six. I suppose this is how my friend (and pothead) can drink Starbucks coffee with 10 shots of espresso in it.
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At least on the east coast, we put either half and half or milk into coffee. Every restaurant I've been to provides half and half but in a residence, milk is often used since it is so useful for regular drinking and milk and cereal. It also cools the coffee faster since you need more for the same amount of creamyness. But if you are going to put a dairy product in your coffee, usually they mean the same thing, with half and half being preferred either way. But that's just my take. I'm from central (Trenton area) New Jersey for reference.
Oh, and artifical creamers are "creamers", so as not to be confused with the real thing.
Helicopters or airplanes of some sort were used to recover the film canisters from spy satellites during the cold war in exactly the same way. It's not like its never been done before. Of course, it's hard to grab onto the parachute when the parachute doesn't even deploy.
I don't think so because I've head it said that if two people are in total agreement only one is making the decisions, or something like that. That seems true enough, so applied to the U.S., that means that probably the media and corperations are making all the decisions for the public and they don't care. I just think that we are slowly becoming more and more like ancient rome, with a love of spectacle and little care for anything that really means something. I hope that we are merely at the bottom of a cycle and not on a "slipery slope".
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I suppose the problem is simulating the entire body with a model in the computer. Animals know how their bodies work very well because when they were young they learned. We have quite a good model of ourselves in our heads so that we can move our foot without looking at it. This model allows us to just know where to put our foot if we are unladen or carrying something since we have done both and know how to do it.
Another possiblity is a large mass screaming through our solar system. I've heard before that it is possible that Pluto was a moon of Uranus and got shot out into a wierd orbit by a passer-by. That also may explain the recurring exinction cycles on Earth. But I don't buy into it much. It still wouldn't be good if something like that passed by Earth.
(from the article) "Each point is made up of normal and dark matter in proportion to the best current estimates, having a mass a billion times that of our sun, or 2000 trillion trillion trillion (2^39) kilograms."
Actually, there appears to be an error in the article, with the author leaving out a "*10^". 2^39 is supposed to be 2x10^39 and that is the number of zeros used in one of the excerpts(sp?). That works out to only 1E19 solar masses, significantly more than the mass of our galaxy by, oh, seven orders of magnitude. No insult to all those who thought differently, but there is no resolution of galaxy parts in this simulation.
Actually, in my previous post, I calculated that there would be much fewer points than that, as in 10 million Andromedas per simulation element. Andromeda is almost the size of our galaxy. So I would think that no, you would not get to see parts of our galaxy, and even if there were that many, I doubt it would appear since the input data is probably not nearly accurate enough.
For one, you aren't even simulating nebulas (to use English pluralization) or galaxies. In a rough calculation, Andromeda is roughly 1E12 Solar Masses and a solar mass is 2E20 kilograms. So Andromeda is 2E32 kg. Each simulation element is 2E39 kg. So each element is simulation 10 million Andromedas! For an element of scale, the Local Group contains 30 galaxies, while the Local Supercluster contains only 100 galaxies and galaxy clusters. It is estimated that the Local Supercluster's mass is 10E15 solar masses or 2E36 kg. Each simulation elemnt is then simulating 1000 Local Superclusters! Not only that, but they are not taking into account light or electromagnetism (AFAIK) and don't take into account the possiblity that an intelligent civilization has discovered the ability to teleport entire galaxies across the universe. But considering that the universe is, on the whole, fairly neutral (I think) and we have not detected such a civilization, the only force we have to worry about is gravity, and they are only trying to model the gross universe, not figure out whether John D. Customer will choose coffee or tea tomorrow to wake up with, and don't have sufficient data to make a starting point that would allow them to come anywhere close, I would say that it is a reasonable model with reasonable trade-offs in accuracy to efficiency. If it looks reasonably similar to our universe, they will probably get a more powerful computer to run the sim on.
Though it appears that he may be right in the end -- cold fusion does exist -- that is how science works. It was extremely difficult for people to reproduce it and since the success rate was on par with anomolous behavior, it was regarded as a fluke. Now that it is understood slightly better, some people are getting results. Usually if the theory behind the experiment is understood, the experiments, no matter how inaccurate, are repeated and made better. But nobody understands the theory. I'm still skeptical, but if this pans out in the end, it would be awesome! Imagine sticking it to oil companies with nuclear cars and planes.
It will, which is why you must keep the wire at an angle to make one side cooler than the other, or some such business. Eventually, the tube will get as warm as the air blowing on it otherwise, yielding no electricity.
"...because over the months the original polymer had developed magnetic properties. Further batches of the polymer confirmed its magnetism and ruled out the possibility that the magnetism had been caused by contamination. In addition, X-ray diffraction data showed an increase in the alignment of the polymer chains over three months, which probably accounts for the increase in magnetism."
They obviously know how to make it, they just aren't very good at it yet since it is inconsistant throughout the material.
"'The reaction is not yet 100 per cent efficient along the polymer and the strength of effect varies throughout the material. Once we increase this efficiency, this overall strength will certainly increase,' says Zaidi."
This is obviously not vaporware, but we may not see it for a while.
I see it as that they are selling the physical media (I'm not giving my CDs back if I indeed "borrowed" them) and selling a license for the content on it. I can do whatever I want with the media, that's what ownership is. I can't legally do everything I want with the content. However, laws have implied that I can, via fair use, make limited backups -- transfers to other physical media. But fair use is apparently fuzzy, and Valenti interperates it as not giving you the right. But I see it as legal because why should I buy another copy of the same thing if I want a backup?
It is relatively easy to parse a text file or thereabouts, but how do you parse an image, audio, or video? The only mechanisms that can create decent metadata are in your brain. Of course, MP3's and the like have metadata, and CDs and DVDs (?) can be looked up. But the pictures from your vacation? Is it going to force you to give metadata? Even google doesn't parse images; it just parses the context around it.
You could just buy a modulator from anywhere that sells DVD players, connect the dvd to the modulator, and connect the modulator to the TV. Our modulator even switches automatically from Antenna to DVD when the player turns on. Poof, no macrovision!
No. What he's saying is that you can stick some U-238 in your reactor fissioning U-235, of which there is 20 times more of the former, it sucks up some neutrons, and you get Plutonium, good enough to stick back in and fission.
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I know! I can barely wait through a Slackware install, and a Windows install drives me nuts since they don't always work and always need you to hold its hand. Imagine what the install will be like - probably a month or two.
I dropped my IMP-450 on the ground and got a scratch or two but it still works fine and is in one piece. I'm just pissed that the 450's (much delayed) firmware upgrade doesn't support ogg. Buyers remorse, right?
My school, NJIT has a similar report and definately has lots of projectors, a comprehensive wireless network, and has Unix and VAX accounts. So yes, Forbes sucks.
Actually, the people saying that there are too many standards often have a new one in mind that encompasses or does the same thing as a few others so that he can say "if you just use my standard, you only have to use one and not three!" So yes, it can and will get worse.
I've heard that the combination of marijuana and nicotine, a downer and an upper, "ups" the high, and pot smokers seem to like caffeine a lot.
Yeah, the X-15. IIRC, one of the highest and fastest flights it took started to melt the plane and as a result, the fuel release valves didn't open, forcing the pilot to land on the metal skids with lots of rocket fuel.
Sort of like Charles Schulz dying on the publication of his last Charlie Brown strip. It is fitting but a strange coincidice. My grandfather died not long after they restored the mill pond in Imlaystown, NJ, which he fought to get. I suppose things happen for a reason; my belief is that it is subconcious. A certain drive causes people to want to live, and when it is completed, they die. Or as George Sanders wrote, "Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool -- good luck."
On the subject of pot, I read (on Wikipedia I believe) that marijuana halves the half-life of caffeine in your body to 3 hours instead of six. I suppose this is how my friend (and pothead) can drink Starbucks coffee with 10 shots of espresso in it.
At least on the east coast, we put either half and half or milk into coffee. Every restaurant I've been to provides half and half but in a residence, milk is often used since it is so useful for regular drinking and milk and cereal. It also cools the coffee faster since you need more for the same amount of creamyness. But if you are going to put a dairy product in your coffee, usually they mean the same thing, with half and half being preferred either way. But that's just my take. I'm from central (Trenton area) New Jersey for reference.
Oh, and artifical creamers are "creamers", so as not to be confused with the real thing.
Helicopters or airplanes of some sort were used to recover the film canisters from spy satellites during the cold war in exactly the same way. It's not like its never been done before. Of course, it's hard to grab onto the parachute when the parachute doesn't even deploy.
I don't think so because I've head it said that if two people are in total agreement only one is making the decisions, or something like that. That seems true enough, so applied to the U.S., that means that probably the media and corperations are making all the decisions for the public and they don't care. I just think that we are slowly becoming more and more like ancient rome, with a love of spectacle and little care for anything that really means something. I hope that we are merely at the bottom of a cycle and not on a "slipery slope".
I suppose the problem is simulating the entire body with a model in the computer. Animals know how their bodies work very well because when they were young they learned. We have quite a good model of ourselves in our heads so that we can move our foot without looking at it. This model allows us to just know where to put our foot if we are unladen or carrying something since we have done both and know how to do it.
"Label seen on Tomato Ketchup bottle: Allergy warning - may contain extract of Tomato"
In response to your sig, I have a can of Mace with a "Best if used by xxx" label.
Does that mean you can read Reverse Polish math forewards?
Another possiblity is a large mass screaming through our solar system. I've heard before that it is possible that Pluto was a moon of Uranus and got shot out into a wierd orbit by a passer-by. That also may explain the recurring exinction cycles on Earth. But I don't buy into it much. It still wouldn't be good if something like that passed by Earth.
(from the article)
"Each point is made up of normal and dark matter in proportion to the best current estimates, having a mass a billion times that of our sun, or 2000 trillion trillion trillion (2^39) kilograms."
Actually, there appears to be an error in the article, with the author leaving out a "*10^". 2^39 is supposed to be 2x10^39 and that is the number of zeros used in one of the excerpts(sp?). That works out to only 1E19 solar masses, significantly more than the mass of our galaxy by, oh, seven orders of magnitude. No insult to all those who thought differently, but there is no resolution of galaxy parts in this simulation.
Actually, in my previous post, I calculated that there would be much fewer points than that, as in 10 million Andromedas per simulation element. Andromeda is almost the size of our galaxy. So I would think that no, you would not get to see parts of our galaxy, and even if there were that many, I doubt it would appear since the input data is probably not nearly accurate enough.
For one, you aren't even simulating nebulas (to use English pluralization) or galaxies. In a rough calculation, Andromeda is roughly 1E12 Solar Masses and a solar mass is 2E20 kilograms. So Andromeda is 2E32 kg. Each simulation element is 2E39 kg. So each element is simulation 10 million Andromedas! For an element of scale, the Local Group contains 30 galaxies, while the Local Supercluster contains only 100 galaxies and galaxy clusters. It is estimated that the Local Supercluster's mass is 10E15 solar masses or 2E36 kg. Each simulation elemnt is then simulating 1000 Local Superclusters! Not only that, but they are not taking into account light or electromagnetism (AFAIK) and don't take into account the possiblity that an intelligent civilization has discovered the ability to teleport entire galaxies across the universe. But considering that the universe is, on the whole, fairly neutral (I think) and we have not detected such a civilization, the only force we have to worry about is gravity, and they are only trying to model the gross universe, not figure out whether John D. Customer will choose coffee or tea tomorrow to wake up with, and don't have sufficient data to make a starting point that would allow them to come anywhere close, I would say that it is a reasonable model with reasonable trade-offs in accuracy to efficiency. If it looks reasonably similar to our universe, they will probably get a more powerful computer to run the sim on.
Though it appears that he may be right in the end -- cold fusion does exist -- that is how science works. It was extremely difficult for people to reproduce it and since the success rate was on par with anomolous behavior, it was regarded as a fluke. Now that it is understood slightly better, some people are getting results. Usually if the theory behind the experiment is understood, the experiments, no matter how inaccurate, are repeated and made better. But nobody understands the theory. I'm still skeptical, but if this pans out in the end, it would be awesome! Imagine sticking it to oil companies with nuclear cars and planes.
It will, which is why you must keep the wire at an angle to make one side cooler than the other, or some such business. Eventually, the tube will get as warm as the air blowing on it otherwise, yielding no electricity.
"...because over the months the original polymer had developed magnetic properties. Further batches of the polymer confirmed its magnetism and ruled out the possibility that the magnetism had been caused by contamination. In addition, X-ray diffraction data showed an increase in the alignment of the polymer chains over three months, which probably accounts for the increase in magnetism."
They obviously know how to make it, they just aren't very good at it yet since it is inconsistant throughout the material.
"'The reaction is not yet 100 per cent efficient along the polymer and the strength of effect varies throughout the material. Once we increase this efficiency, this overall strength will certainly increase,' says Zaidi."
This is obviously not vaporware, but we may not see it for a while.
I see it as that they are selling the physical media (I'm not giving my CDs back if I indeed "borrowed" them) and selling a license for the content on it. I can do whatever I want with the media, that's what ownership is. I can't legally do everything I want with the content. However, laws have implied that I can, via fair use, make limited backups -- transfers to other physical media. But fair use is apparently fuzzy, and Valenti interperates it as not giving you the right. But I see it as legal because why should I buy another copy of the same thing if I want a backup?
It is relatively easy to parse a text file or thereabouts, but how do you parse an image, audio, or video? The only mechanisms that can create decent metadata are in your brain. Of course, MP3's and the like have metadata, and CDs and DVDs (?) can be looked up. But the pictures from your vacation? Is it going to force you to give metadata? Even google doesn't parse images; it just parses the context around it.
You could just buy a modulator from anywhere that sells DVD players, connect the dvd to the modulator, and connect the modulator to the TV. Our modulator even switches automatically from Antenna to DVD when the player turns on. Poof, no macrovision!
No. What he's saying is that you can stick some U-238 in your reactor fissioning U-235, of which there is 20 times more of the former, it sucks up some neutrons, and you get Plutonium, good enough to stick back in and fission.
Breeder Reactor